local backup vs. remote backup in kansas city
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Whether your business is big or small, data backup is vital for the protection of your data and it maintains your business's security. Learn the differences between local and remote backup in Kansas City. Visit http://www.dataedge.com/ - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Data backup is an essential routine that you should do to protect all your
data, irrespective of the size of your business. The process of backing up
your data can be done remotely through a file server, or locally using tapes,
discs, DVDs, external hard drive, or the local drive.
Advantages of Local Backup
• Most companies rely on DVD, external hard disk or tape drive data backup
solutions locally as they provide fast, cost effective storage.
• They are also very easy for even the IT novice to operate.
• In the case of any data being lost it's simply a matter of restoring the data
from a previous backup point and the user can then continue working.
Disadvantages of Local Backup
• The data, however, is only as safe as the building it's in.
• In the case of fire, flood, burglary, or storm damage, all the data backups
may be lost in the blink of an eye.
• Also, it's not unusual to forget where we have put things; so you might
forget where you placed the pen drive/tape, thereby losing the files.
Remote Backup
• As an emerging industry, remote data backup has really taken off.
• Most commonly, remote file backup services allow you to log into a remote
drive and via a web based interface, upload all your critical files.
• 5GB of storage space is the entry point for most of the remote data
backup services and this is provided at a low cost.
Advantages of Remote Backup
• When your data backup is secure at a safe location away from your office
you can rest assured that whatever may happen at your workplace your
files are secure.
• Almost all big data companies use this method of back-up.
With the dawn of worldwide outsourcing, remote backup has gained
popularity since the data sourced from abroad is secure at their own base in
their country.
Best Backup Solution
• In an ideal world you'd store a local copy of your data and then upload an
exact copy of that data to the remote file backup server.
• If money is an issue, then store your bulk data locally but copy your
mission critical data to the remote backup service.
• That way in the worst of disasters you'll still have the data you need to
actually function as a business.